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In restless dreams I walked alone - nar row streets of cobblestone

Neath the halo of a street lamp,

I tur ned my collar to the cold and damp

W hen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people,

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People talking without speaking ,

people hear ing without listening

People wr iting songs that voices never share and no one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

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ou do not know - silence like a cancer g rows.

Hear my words that I might teach you,

take my ar ms that I might reach you."

But my words like silent raindrops fell,

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In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out its war ning ,

in the words that it was for ming

And the sign said the words of the prophets

are wr itten on the subway walls and tenement halls

And whisper'd in the sounds of silence...

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